Observed arrival · 2026-09-13
El traductor literario: a page-turning essay about crossing languages
Miquel Gómez Besòs presents an interactive Spanish-language essay on literary translation, its human origins, and its confrontation with artificial intelligence.
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The work uses the architecture of a small digital book rather than a standard article: readers can open a frontispiece, follow an index through six chapters, move with left and right arrows, and return to the beginning. Its narrative traces a childhood fascination with signs such as “On parle français” and “Man spricht Deutsch” into years of language and cultural study. One chapter then turns the translator’s professional anxiety into a dialogue with an AI claiming it can imitate major writers.
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